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Monday, November 23, 2015

If We Do Not Vote- Dolores Huerta

Dolores
Huerta, who co-founded United Farmworkers with Cesar Chavez and who is an
Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America, spoke during a news
conference Tuesday morning Nov. 10, before the Republican candidates debate
in Milwaukee and said it's "really unfortunate" that
GOP leaders are trying to win by attacking innocent people.

Huerta has led movements for organizing union rights and social justice
since the founding along with Cesar Chavez, Philip Vera Cruz and
others of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. She continues through her current work in
supporting union democracy, civicengagement and promoting Latino Voter participation.

Organizing Latino voter
education and outreach is an important part of defeating Republicans in
2016.And, it is working.

Huerta calls
Donald Trump the face of the Republican Party, and accuses him of dehumanizing
Latinos.With organized work, GOP positions on immigration and union rights may sink
Republicans in the 2016 elections.

Huerta says Trump’s
primary opponents are no better.

"When
we think about people like Rubio and Ted Cruz, even Jeb Bush, who speaks
Spanish, they may have a Spanish last name -- but they do not have a Latino
heart because they don`t care about immigrants. They don`t care about our
community," Huerta said.

These
protesters say Latino voters could swing this swing state next fall.

Nov.

"If we
do not vote, the haters will win, and we cannot allow that to happen,"
Huerta said.

New polling released by impreMedia and Latino Decisions finds that the GOP's
image among Latino voters has significantly deteriorated since 2012.

The poll
of 424 Latino registered voters living in critical battleground states reports
that statements by GOP frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson are negatively
impacting the overall GOP brand. When asked about comments by Trump, 80 percent
of Latino voters said it gives them a less favorable impression of the
Republican Party. When asked about Carson's comments about immigration and
using drone's to bomb smuggling tunnels on the US-Mexico border, 70 percent
said it gives them a less favorable impression of the Republican Party.

The
Milwaukee protest was organized by Voces de la Frontera Action, and the Fight
for $15 campaign.

Dolores also
participated in protests prior to the Republican debates in Denver, Colorado in
October.